Local & Distance Study

Messianic Life Institute offers courses taught both in the classroom and through recorded lectures via the Internet.

Students matriculated in degree programs work with one or more academic / pastoral mentors who oversee their studies and report their progress to the Institute's administration. Students can either be assigned to mentors or they can procure their own. Mentors procured by the student must submit their qualifications to MLI for approval. Ideally, mentors should live close to their students so that they can meet regularly.

Classroom courses are conducted in the traditional manner. Distance courses are different in that the professors' lectures are delivered via recorded audio and/or video; the course textbooks for distance courses are, however, the same as those used in their classroom counterparts. Also, to supplement the recorded lectures, students correspond with their professors via e-mail and/or telephone, and regularly meet with their professor and fellow students in scheduled real-time conferences in MLI's suite of Internet classrooms. This latter interaction is particularly important in enabling students to ask questions and discuss issues and views, not only with the professor, but with classmates as well.

Most MLI courses are 3 semester-credit hours, and one semester in length (thirteen to fifteen weeks). Courses usually end with a final examination and/or a final paper.